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has been created to increase awareness and understanding of this tremendously interesting animal. The site acts as a focal point for news, views and opinions on all issues concerning wild boar. The site is non-judgemental, non-moralistic and simply reports factually on all the issues surrounding Britain's returning wild boar population. The site does not encourage the reintroduction of wild boar into Britain, nor does it discourage it.
Our Primary Objective: Raise public awareness, and stimulate interest and understanding about Britain's free-living wild boar populations.
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Welcome to the first website devoted solely to the free-living wild boar in Britain. After an absence of approximately 700 years, wild boar are roaming and breeding in the British countryside once again! For such a large mammal to become accidentally reintroduced into Britain in this day and age is a truly remarkable event, and absolutely fascinating to follow. The short, soundless video on the right highlights some of the issues that surround Britain's free-living wild boar populations.
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A wild boar sow amongst the brambles in an East Sussex woodland. This population established over ten years ago. The boar have become completely nocturnal and very wary of people - a response to considerable hunting pressure. (© Martin Goulding)
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Wild boar in Devon. By contrast, these wild boar in south Devon have only recently escaped from captivity, are not yet wary of people, and are diurnal (active during daylight).
(reproduced with permission)
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Wild boar in the Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire. These wild boar were deliberately released into the Forest of Dean in 2004. The released stock appears to have included sows, males and juveniles - the perfect 'seed' for forming a new population (reproduced with permission) |
A Forest of Dean wild boar. It has been several years now since their release in 2004. The wild boar in the main block of the Dean had not, until recently, been hunted and thus had not developed a fear of people. The Forestry Commission have now started reducing wild boar numbers in the Dean by shooting and trapping, and the wild boar are becoming increasingly more wary of people, and nocturnal. (Photo: Brian Davis,http://www.brianswildlifephotos.blogspot.com/ reproduced with permission) |
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Wild boar continue to be sighted in new areas - verification in these cases was achieved using an automatically triggered night-cameras from various locations in Southern England (from left to right, photo reproduced with permission of Alex Walker, with permission of Chris Milton)
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Site last updated:
26 July 2010
Site email address: comment@britishwildboar.org.uk Site author: Dr Martin Goulding Tel: 07790 454228 Site author's email address: mjgoulding@mjgoulding.freeserve.co.uk |
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